The Daily Populous Monday July 8th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by bbc.co.uk and submitted by MintCathexis

A children's hospital in Kyiv has been hit after Russia launched a wave of missile strikes against cities across Ukraine.

Two people died when the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital - Ukraine's biggest paediatrics facility - sustained major damage during the blast. Thirty-one people across the country were killed in the early morning bombardment, officials said.

Lesia Lysytsia, a doctor at the hospital, told the BBC the moment the missile struck was "like in a film" with a "big light, then an awful sound".

"One part of the hospital was destroyed and there was a fire in another. It's really very damaged - maybe 60-70% of the hospital," she said.

Pictures from the scene showed young children - some with IV drips - sitting outside the hospital as it was evacuated.

Vitaliy Klitschko, Kyiv's mayor, said the two who died at the hospital were adults - one of whom was a doctor. He added that rescuers feared more people were trapped under the rubble.

Russia has denied targeting the hospital, saying it was hit by fragments of a Ukrainian air defence missile. But Ukraine says it has found remnants of a Russian cruise missile.

asupremebeing on July 8th, 2024 at 13:20 UTC »

Now would be a good time to recall that the first target in this war was a kindergarten room at an elementary school. The Russian Army may be depraved, but it has always done better against unarmed civilians than trained troops.

VoltexRB on July 8th, 2024 at 13:03 UTC »

And if that didnt sound heartless enough, the strikes were aimed at the chemo ward of the childrens hospital.

VagrantShadow on July 8th, 2024 at 11:48 UTC »

> A children's hospital has been seriously damaged in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv by Russian strikes, as 24 people were killed across the country in an early morning barrage.

> At least 10 people were killed in Kyiv by the rare daytime attack, including two who died at the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital, which sustained major damage during the blast.

> The head of the military administration in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih said at least 10 people had been killed there, with three more killed in the eastern town of Pokrovsk and one in Dnipro.

We see here once again putin showing the world that he is the scum of the earth. Through his command, him and his forces are killing innocent people, innocent children. They have no regard for others but themselves, they are absolute trash, filth of this earth. I hope putin burns in hell.